February 26, 2014
Advanced American History
The Chinese Immigration Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur in the spring of 1882. The act would be just one of the very many racial jesters that the U.S would throw at the Chinese throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The act banned all skilled and non skilled Chinese from entering or immigrating to the U.S for purpose of mining or any other type of labor for ten years. It would make immigration for regular Chinese very hard because the U.S qualified regular Chinese citizens as unskilled therefore they could be pursuing work with in the U.S.
The Immigration Act would also put major regulations on already immigrated Chinese. Any Chinese person that left the U.S had to purchase certifications to reenter the country on return. Those Chinese that had immigrated before the act also had to have proof of their immigration or they were classified as aliens and therefore arrested and deported from the U.S. This made life for a Chinese immigrate difficult because all of the certification papers were expensive and many Chinese immigrants were either miners or shop owners who owned very little money. This would cause many Chinese immigrants to become aliens and many were caught and shipped back to China.
In 1892, after the original Chinese Immigration Act was reputed, the U.S added another ten years to the act by enforcing the Geary Act. This again was extended in 1902 and was not abolished until 1924. The Geary Act contained many of the same rules as the original Immigration act of 1882. Certification papers became more intense and even more Chinese immigrants were deported. Even after the act was abolished in 1924, there were still heavy restrictions laid on the Chinese. In 1943, only 105 American born Chinese remained in the country.
In 1965, another regulation was passed by congress to allow only 170,000 immigrants from the western hemisphere to come to the U.S. It would not be until 1990 that these regulations were again dropped. Today we see many of thousands of Chinese immigrants and American born Chinese citizens, however it was not until the late nineties and early 2000’s that we saw the large mass of Chinese flow into our country.
Advanced American History
The Chinese Immigration Act was signed by President Chester A. Arthur in the spring of 1882. The act would be just one of the very many racial jesters that the U.S would throw at the Chinese throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The act banned all skilled and non skilled Chinese from entering or immigrating to the U.S for purpose of mining or any other type of labor for ten years. It would make immigration for regular Chinese very hard because the U.S qualified regular Chinese citizens as unskilled therefore they could be pursuing work with in the U.S.
The Immigration Act would also put major regulations on already immigrated Chinese. Any Chinese person that left the U.S had to purchase certifications to reenter the country on return. Those Chinese that had immigrated before the act also had to have proof of their immigration or they were classified as aliens and therefore arrested and deported from the U.S. This made life for a Chinese immigrate difficult because all of the certification papers were expensive and many Chinese immigrants were either miners or shop owners who owned very little money. This would cause many Chinese immigrants to become aliens and many were caught and shipped back to China.
In 1892, after the original Chinese Immigration Act was reputed, the U.S added another ten years to the act by enforcing the Geary Act. This again was extended in 1902 and was not abolished until 1924. The Geary Act contained many of the same rules as the original Immigration act of 1882. Certification papers became more intense and even more Chinese immigrants were deported. Even after the act was abolished in 1924, there were still heavy restrictions laid on the Chinese. In 1943, only 105 American born Chinese remained in the country.
In 1965, another regulation was passed by congress to allow only 170,000 immigrants from the western hemisphere to come to the U.S. It would not be until 1990 that these regulations were again dropped. Today we see many of thousands of Chinese immigrants and American born Chinese citizens, however it was not until the late nineties and early 2000’s that we saw the large mass of Chinese flow into our country.